{"id":1204834,"date":"2022-01-10T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204834"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:22:02","slug":"cotton-wapo-fact-checking-me-because-i-am-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-wapo-fact-checking-me-because-i-am-telling-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton: WaPo Fact-Checking Me &#039;Because I Am Telling the Truth&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcotton-wapo-fact-checking-me-because-i-am-telling-the-truth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204834&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sen-tom-cotton-rar-december-1-2020-pool-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Monday on FNC\u2019s \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) sounded off on The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/01\/07\/washington-post-reduces-tom-cottons-pinocchio-rating-over-boston-bomber-stimulus-check\/\">reducing<\/a> his&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/09\/murderers-undocumented-immigrants-hyped-claims-about-whos-getting-stimulus-checks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Pinocchio rating<\/a>&nbsp;from 2021 after it was revealed Boston Marathon bomber&nbsp;Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/boston-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-got-1400-covid-relief-payment\/BVKRJUHHHVEIFBVS5IM3INNDNI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">receive<\/a>&nbsp;a coronavirus relief payment.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton warned during congressional debate in 2021 that prisoners like the Boston Bomber would receive money from the Democrats\u2019 bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Cotton, liberal outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times fact check him because he is \u201ctelling the truth\u201d and \u201cexposing the crazy ideas of the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t much of a mystery on this when I proposed an amendment that would prohibit checks from going to criminals like the Boston Marathon bomber. The Democrats voted against my amendment. The Democrats said on the Senate floor that they wanted checks to go to prisoners,\u201d Cotton outlined. \u201cSo, murderers and rapists and pedophiles across America got your tax dollars last year, yet The Washington Post used a fact check to call this a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason they keep fact-checking me, though, is not because I\u2019m not telling the truth. It\u2019s because I am telling the truth,\u201d he continued. \u201cI am exposing the crazy ideas of the Democratic Party, and their praetorian guard in the media doesn\u2019t want to let me speak out to those truths. This happened as well with my assertions in early 2020 at the very beginning of the pandemic that it was at least a real possibility that the virus came out of that lab in Wuhan, not from some food market. And yet again, The Washington Post had to backpedal on those claims. It happened with The New York Times as well. Look, if the media wants to keep starting those fights with me, I\u2019m happy to finish these fights because the American people deserve the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday on FNC\u2019s \u201cFox &#038; Friends,\u201d Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) sounded off on The Washington Post reducing his\u00a0Pinocchio rating\u00a0from 2021 after it was revealed Boston Marathon bomber\u00a0Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did\u00a0receive\u00a0a coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}